Admittedly I am not the best R coder, and I certainly have a lot to learn, but the code at the link below should provide you with an example of how easy it is to create a very (repeat: very) basic web crawler in R.  If you wanted to do ... [Read more...]

I have been sitting on this post for some time now and wanted to get it out there.  The goal is to simply show how easy it is to pull live data from the web into R, massage it, and perform some analytics on it.  I am not sure how ... [Read more...]

I am in a fantasy hockey league for the first time this seasons and I wanted to use R to analyze players.  Since I am relatively new to R, I am quite certain this code could be improved.  The code below is functional, however, and while this isn’t my ... [Read more...]